Labor-Progressive Party

The Labor-Progressive Party (LPP) was a communist political party in Canada that existed from 1943 to 1959. The party was founded three years after the Communist Party of Canada was banned by the wartime government, with the former Communist Party leaders coming to lead the LPP. From 1943 to 1947, LPP member Fred Rose served as MP for Cartier, and he was expelled from the House of Commons in 1947 after being accused of being a Soviet spy. The party continued to elect a handful of its members to provincial legislatures, city councils, and school boards across Canada well into the 1950s, but a strong sense of anti-communism, caused by the Cold War, led to the party's strength declining. In 1959, it rejoined the legalized Communist Party of Canada.